Beckham v. State

LATTIMORE, Judge. —

Conviction for murder; punishment, twenty years in the penitentiary.

This killing took place in the late afternoon, and there is some evidence that it was getting dark. The scene was laid in the little town of Zephyr in Brown County. Deceased and a daughter of appellant had been sweethearts at stormy intervals for some time. With other young people they had been out to a swimming hole on thé afternoon before the killing. We need not go at length into what occurred out there, but deceased and the girl referred to had almost, if not quite, an extended fight. Each struck the…